This WiSE Wednesday’s feature covers the heroic determination of biochemist and pharmacologist Regina Kapeller-Adler. Her pioneering research in women’s health not only revolutionized pregnancy detection methods, but would also provide her with a ticket to freedom from Nazi persecution during World War II. Kapeller-Adler was born on June 28th 1900 to a Jewish family...
Time for another WiSE Wednesday! Today we are talking about Dr. Indira Raman, a professor at Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In the beginning, Dr. Raman was interested in linguistics and mathematics. Her father suggested she go into science, but she kept her interest in linguistics and mathematics as her thinking led...
This week our WiSE Wednesday will highlight Chilean biochemist, Dr. María Cecilia Hidalgo Tapia. She completed both her undergraduate and graduate training in biochemistry at the Universidad de Chile before moving to the US to pursue a postdoctoral position at the National Institutes of Health. She then returned to Chile and served as a...
(May 12th, 1820-August 13th 1910) Our WiSE Wednesday is still on the theme of Nurses Day and Nurses Week. Today we will be featuring a huge figure in nursing, Florence Nightingale. Her birthday, May 12th, is the International Nurses Day and the last day of Nurses Week each year. Florence was born in 1820,...
Link To IHE Journal Club Page Description Of Journal Clubs Link to Resources from previous retreats Nature’s Women In Science (2013) This special issue of Nature takes a hard look at the gender gap — from bench to boardroom — and at what is being done to close it. Topics vary from gender disparity...
